Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq Sunnis, Nationalists Make Gains in Iraq
Preliminary, mostly leaked, results from the elections in Iraq suggest a tectonic shift away from ultrareligious Shiite parties and separatist Kurds, with nationalists, secular pa...
Feb 2, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Daschle Must Go (UPDATED) Daschle Must Go (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Sunday night, I urged President Barack Obama to withdraw former SenatorTom Daschle's nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services inorder to "revive the change br...
Feb 1, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet
With speculation running rampant that New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg could be plucked from the Senate by President Obama and nominated to serve as Commerce Secretary, we retu...
Feb 1, 2009 / John Nichols
What Happened in Congress This Week What Happened in Congress This Week
From correspondent Greg Kaufmann a look back at last week on the Hill: Here are the big items this week: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that reverses the terrible anti-equal pa...
Jan 31, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair
When Michael Steele ran for Maryland's open US Senate in 2006, his backers hired 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia -- most if not all of them unemployed, many of...
Jan 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
First things first, we have a new Think Again column here called "Spying on Journalists? Why the Silence?" and a new Nation column called "The Defamation League," here, which add...
Jan 30, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Vote for White House Farmer Vote for White House Farmer
Author Michael Pollan suggested last fall that the next president--as part of a broader move to encourage understanding of and support for sustainable agriculture--should appoint ...
Jan 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Let’s Get A-Changin’ at Treasury Let’s Get A-Changin’ at Treasury
This, from Barry Ritholtz about Timothy Geithner's performance so far is pretty on the money: I've noticed something I find a bit disturbing about our new Treasury Secretary: He ...
Jan 30, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Iraq Votes: Can Non-Sectarian Parties Gain? Iraq Votes: Can Non-Sectarian Parties Gain?
This is the last of the three-part series on Iraq's provincial elections, scheduled for tomorrow. After four years under a government dominated by Shiite religious parties with c...
Jan 30, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Debating the Stimulus Debating the Stimulus
This morning we were out in force on television, debating the efficacyof HR 1, President Obama's Economic Recovery Act. Like others, I'vepushed for more spending on infrastructur...
Jan 29, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel